What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.13.8 linux/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes (namely go version go1.15.3 linux/amd64)

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

I'm cross-compiling on Linux/amd64 (see the following go env output), and running on Windows 8.1/amd64:

Build environment:
$ go env
GO111MODULE=""

GOARCH="amd64"

GOBIN=""

GOCACHE="/home/twoi/.cache/go-build"

GOENV="/home/twoi/.config/go/env"

GOEXE=""

GOFLAGS=""

GOHOSTARCH="amd64"

GOHOSTOS="linux"

GONOPROXY=""

GONOSUMDB=""

GOOS="linux"

GOPATH="/home/twoi/go"

GOPRIVATE=""

GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"

GOROOT="/usr/lib/go-1.13"

GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"

GOTMPDIR=""

GOTOOLDIR="/usr/lib/go-1.13/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"

GCCGO="gccgo"

AR="ar"

CC="gcc"

CXX="g++"

CGO_ENABLED="1"

GOMOD=""

CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_CPPFLAGS=""

CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"

CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"

PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"

GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build855756322=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

What did you do?

Using

GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build main.go

I built the following program

package main

import "os"

func main() {
	os.Stdout.Write([]byte{65})
}

Then I ran it on cmd.exe on Windows 8.1 like so:

.\main > file

What did you expect to see?

A file containing the single byte 65 (i.e. 'A')

(On Unix and Windows 10 - running the very same main.exe build - this is indeed what I am seeing)

N.B. Both tested Windows 8.1. and Windows 10 were Japanese language Windows installations.

What did you see instead?

file was 8 bytes in size, containing the following bytes (hex dump):

00000000  ff fe 41 00 0d 00 0a 00                           |..A.....|

Here's the issue on Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/q/64639265/709537 (closed of course by the Stackoverflow Gestapo)